RESCUE OF SURVIVORS FROM USS INDIANAPOLIS/TYPHOON DAMAGE ABOARD USS SALAMAUA Part 1

Description

1) CU PAN of damage to superstructure of USS REGISTER (APD-92) as result of enemy suicide plane attack off Okinawa.2) HA Welders cut away wreckage of masts and hoists.3) CU Section of mast bent over 40mm gun mount.4) SV Fueling operations from AO alongside.5) MS Surviver floating in rubber raft; LCVP comes alongside man in raft; surviver in LCVP with boat crew.6) LS PB-1 in flight7) HA Group of three ship"s rafts floating in water.8) MS APD-92 lying to (shot from starboard beam).9) HA Two survivors from USS INDIANAPOLIS situated on raft as ship comes alongside raft.10) MS Survivers pose on deck.11) MS Survivers on USS INDIANAPOLIS are transferred on stretchers from deck of APD to LCP alongside.12522- SV (LS) Wrecked planes on flight deck of USS SALAMAUA; men attempt to right TBM

Collection

General Records of the Department of the Navy

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities